I Often Find It Uncanny,

that I make a post, then the next day an article appears,

so similar to the original post, for instance yesterday I made a post about a floating house, today a article about hundreds of them! all images are courtesy of Waterstudio/Dutch Docklands Maldives, in the Maldives, 80 per cent of the country sits less than one metre (three feet) above sea level with this in mind the country has partnered with architecture studio Waterstudio to create a brain-shaped floating city that will house 20,000 people in a lagoon near the country's capital,

with the Maldives islands predicted to be uninhabitable by 2100 due to rising sea levels, the government of the Maldives hopes to offer up to 20,000 locals and foreigners the opportunity to move to the floating city as early as 2024,

construction is planned to begin later this year on the development, which will be 10 minutes by boat from the Maldivian capital Male, "This first-of-its-kind island city offers a revolutionary approach to modern sustainable living perched against a backdrop of the azure Indian Ocean," said the studio, "It's the world's first true floating island city – a futuristic dreamscape finally poised to become reality."

developer Dutch Docklands claims that nothing like this has been attempted on this scale and at this speed with full governmental support, "While attempts at floating cities have been tried before, none have featured Maldives Floating City's most compelling selling points: full-scale technical, logistical and legal expertise," explained Dutch Docklands,

the development, which is set to be fully completed by 2027, will be composed of a series of hexagonal islands modelled on the geometric shapes of a local coral called brain coral, when combined and viewed from above the development will resemble a brain, the living platforms will support houses, hotels, restaurants, shops, a hospital, a school and a government building, each seafront residence will be 100-square-metres and have a jetty attached to its front and a terrace on its roof, Dutch Docklands says they will be priced from $250,000, at today's rate £203,852, I hope the locals have the money to be able to afford the new homes, leaving that to one side, how strange that yesterday I mentioned a floating home and today here are hundreds of them!